But if the servant plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children — I do not want to go free,’
In context
3If he came in alone, he is to go out alone; if he had a wife when he came, his wife is to go out with him. 4If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and he is to go out alone. 5But if the servant plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children — I do not want to go free,’ 6then his master shall bring him to God, and bring him to the door or the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve him for life. 7If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.
